BG-Tiny Linux Bootdisk 2.0

BG-Tiny Linux Bootdisk is a Linux bootdisk that does not use a ramdisk, so it will run on computers with very little RAM. It is basically a somewhat extended fork of Tiny Linux Bootdisk. It is based on Linux 2.4 series, uClibc, and BusyBox. It includes dosfsprogs, e2fsprogs, gpart, lilo, and ms-sys. Supported filesystems are ext2, ext3, iso9660, tmpfs, and vfat.

Supported Hardware:

Block Devices:
IDE/ATAPI Disk/CD-Rom Support
Normal Floppy Disk Support

Console:
VGA Text console

BUS / Ports:
Keyboard generic support (USB should work on most systems)
PCI / ISA Bus

Plug and Play Support / ISAPNP Support

Included Software:

LINUX-Kernel 2.4.36.3
with BG-Rescue Linux patch

uClibc 0.9.27 (statically linked into programs)

BusyBox 1.3.2

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dosfstools 2.11
gpart 0.1h (with support for ReiserFS 3.6)
init from BusyBox 1.3.2 (including halt/poweroff/reboot)
lilo 22.8
ms-sys 2.1.3
e2fsprogs, fdisk, gzip, tar and unzip are integrated in BusyBox

Supported Filesystems: ext2, ext3, iso9660, proc, ramfs, tmpfs, vfat.

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What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Updated the Linux kernel and dosfstools to the latest versions and added support for the filesystem cramfs and for the loopback device.
· Added plip support to be able to transfer data over a parallel-port Laplink cable. This makes is possible to use BG-Tiny Linux Bootdisk to install either an old windows version or a linux-2.4 Debian Linux version (eg Woody or Lenny) on an old 4MB-RAM computer which does not have or has an unsupported cdrom-drive.
· There is free ram of 1168kb and the total amount of free ram (free low ram + buffers + cached) is now 1556kb on a machine with 4MB of total ram.
· Added oneit_lite 1.0
· Updated dosfstools to 3.0.11
· Updated linux kernel to 2.4.37.11
· Removed toybox 0.1.00
· Released Floppy Version.